Installing to a Poweredge 1400

[Torsten Spooner]

John wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 12:46 -0500, Torsten Spooner wrote:
>   
>> This is on a Poweredge 1400.
>> Raid controller AIC 7899  version 25306
>> I've tried to install a number of times with different CD's (and distros).
>>
>> I'm mostly having trouble with the PERC controller, and not seeing the
>> disks to Partition.
>> My most recent attempt was with Ubuntu Server.
>>
>> The installer shows that the aacraid, aic79xx, aic7xxx, and aic7xxx_old
>> are available. Once one of them is selected,  it responds that it cannot
>> find the hard drives. If the aic7xxx_old is selected, it continues, but
>> then searches for the RAID and comes up with nothing
>>     
>
>  Maybe Enable Mass Storage on the Controller Card Bios
>
>   
Didn't find that option in the system bios, or the controller card's.
>> lsmod tells me that they are being added properly. I am assming that the
>> versions are not correct somewhere?
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
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>
> Some older Power Edge Servers need to have the bios configured to Mass
> Storage for the OS (linux) to recognize the LUNs, Disk Array, Raid
> Configuration Also you may need to load the drivers @ the install prompt
> something like "[user at foo]#linux dd" good luck!
>
>   
There was a debian-on-a-dell cd that could recognize the RAID, but
didn't like any of the system files:

this site: http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/Debian+on+Dell+Servers
with this image:
http://staff.osuosl.org/~kveton/debian/debian-dell-2.4.31.iso

I just gave up and used a software raid.
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